LMVSC town hall

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

Thanks coach!

Maybe I should think about coaching. Played and know the game. I’m just putting things together from what I got yesterday and what have read here. We are most likely returning and hope it works out. If not, next year’s tryouts will hopefully back to normalcy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

agree we did the same and never got the so called paying up opportunity. I am all for better kids making other kids better but ultimately some kids will take a hit if not constantly being challenged. So to close the gap you lower the bar for better players. They never address that fact however they reserve the right to move your kids from SQUAD to SQUAD based on what they think is best. Now sure how this builds confidence with players moving down and also for players moving up how they integrate with players they might have not played with before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't get the chance to attend. Can someone post the cliff notes? Or will there be some sort of slide presentation released? We're most likely not coming back but interested in what they had to say.

Same. What is the plan for the older boys groups?

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

agree we did the same and never got the so called paying up opportunity. I am all for better kids making other kids better but ultimately some kids will take a hit if not constantly being challenged. So to close the gap you lower the bar for better players. They never address that fact however they reserve the right to move your kids from SQUAD to SQUAD based on what they think is best. Now sure how this builds confidence with players moving down and also for players moving up how they integrate with players they might have not played with before.

For all the “standardization”, there seems to be a problem of explaining what the standard is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't get the chance to attend. Can someone post the cliff notes? Or will there be some sort of slide presentation released? We're most likely not coming back but interested in what they had to say.

Same. What is the plan for the older boys groups?

The plan last night was “this is not for U16 and up”. So I don’t know. Only one 04 boys team, and apparently only one forecasted 02/03 team. I guess they think there’ll be an 03 and 04 girls team, and two 05 girls teams.

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

Thanks coach!

Maybe I should think about coaching. Played and know the game. I’m just putting things together from what I got yesterday and what have read here. We are most likely returning and hope it works out. If not, next year’s tryouts will hopefully back to normalcy.

This is Travel soccer we're talking about, you can't just wait and hope things work out. We pay a lot of money, Kids are getting older and more competitive if they don't have a good foundation they'll never have a chance to develop and play in a competitive level.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

You are getting it wrong if you think this is being implemented to make it easier on coaching. How is your dd going to get better, she’ll need to compete to stay at the top. The training is still training. If your daughter is on top team and that team never changes, players may not push each other as hard. every system has its pros and negatives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

You are getting it wrong if you think this is being implemented to make it easier on coaching. How is your dd going to get better, she’ll need to compete to stay at the top. The training is still training. If your daughter is on top team and that team never changes, players may not push each other as hard. every system has its pros and negatives.

Not PP. When the level isn’t there and they have to do same thing? DS suffers. When white team player is struggling too much, then what?

This is a great theory for under 9v9. But I don’t need to defend myself to club officials.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

agree we did the same and never got the so called paying up opportunity. I am all for better kids making other kids better but ultimately some kids will take a hit if not constantly being challenged. So to close the gap you lower the bar for better players. They never address that fact however they reserve the right to move your kids from SQUAD to SQUAD based on what they think is best. Now sure how this builds confidence with players moving down and also for players moving up how they integrate with players they might have not played with before.

For all the “standardization”, there seems to be a problem of explaining what the standard is.

You can’t ask for the standardization to be defined on an unanimous board. Reach out to them and ask them to explain to you exactly how they plan to implement it. maybe another town hall so all can hear.

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

You are getting it wrong if you think this is being implemented to make it easier on coaching. How is your dd going to get better, she’ll need to compete to stay at the top. The training is still training. If your daughter is on top team and that team never changes, players may not push each other as hard. every system has its pros and negatives.

Not PP. When the level isn’t there and they have to do same thing? DS suffers. When white team player is struggling too much, then what?

This is a great theory for under 9v9. But I don’t need to defend myself to club officials.

I get what you’re saying but a struggling white player would not be training w the red player. It doesn’t make sense for them to just randomly put players into groups.

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

agree we did the same and never got the so called paying up opportunity. I am all for better kids making other kids better but ultimately some kids will take a hit if not constantly being challenged. So to close the gap you lower the bar for better players. They never address that fact however they reserve the right to move your kids from SQUAD to SQUAD based on what they think is best. Now sure how this builds confidence with players moving down and also for players moving up how they integrate with players they might have not played with before.

For all the “standardization”, there seems to be a problem of explaining what the standard is.

You can’t ask for the standardization to be defined on an unanimous board. Reach out to them and ask them to explain to you exactly how they plan to implement it. maybe another town hall so all can hear.

They couldn’t last night when we had no mics turned on. Are they going to explain it to a kid at practice or to me in parking lot? Okay.

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

You are getting it wrong if you think this is being implemented to make it easier on coaching. How is your dd going to get better, she’ll need to compete to stay at the top. The training is still training. If your daughter is on top team and that team never changes, players may not push each other as hard. every system has its pros and negatives.

Not PP. When the level isn’t there and they have to do same thing? DS suffers. When white team player is struggling too much, then what?

This is a great theory for under 9v9. But I don’t need to defend myself to club officials.

I get what you’re saying but a struggling white player would not be training w the red player. It doesn’t make sense for them to just randomly put players into groups.

No, that wasn’t what was said last night. Everybody trains same activities. And if they regroup, they’re just lying to white team players.

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Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

agree we did the same and never got the so called paying up opportunity. I am all for better kids making other kids better but ultimately some kids will take a hit if not constantly being challenged. So to close the gap you lower the bar for better players. They never address that fact however they reserve the right to move your kids from SQUAD to SQUAD based on what they think is best. Now sure how this builds confidence with players moving down and also for players moving up how they integrate with players they might have not played with before.

For all the “standardization”, there seems to be a problem of explaining what the standard is.

You can’t ask for the standardization to be defined on an unanimous board. Reach out to them and ask them to explain to you exactly how they plan to implement it. maybe another town hall so all can hear.

They couldn’t last night when we had no mics turned on. Are they going to explain it to a kid at practice or to me in parking lot? Okay.

Damn a bit aggressive. They said they will get back to those who have follow-up questions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy model promptly ended at SYC after the great SYC/LMVSC DT/Coach swap and has now come full circle to LMVSC.

Stop with the SYC—LMVSC nonsense, it is really immature, petty and trivial. (From an Alexandria parent)

"Alexandria parent"

Any soccer parent sees the thread "LMVSC town hall" you bet they'll just keep scrolling.

PP has a good point too, the Academy style didn't produce better players at old SYC why are the coaches bringing it here now???

Didn't two of their teams win state cup just before the coaches came over?

Were these 9v9 State Cups? Thanks, but I'm not going to sit here and thank anybody for their previous work. For all of this community talk, I don't feel like DDs team nor DD was considered (not that she's ever met red team coach despite 'two year cap') in this "new" idea.

Well i'm not thanking them either for what they did in the past but you made it seem like they didn't do anything, just pointing the fact that there was some success. Not sure what you mean about your daughter not meeting red team coach? Was she white team and didn't get to play red? If so and good enough then she will now.

Well since LMVSC has now decided to reappear on this thread, can you please tell me why we were told last year "coaches will only have two years with a team, because they're like teachers and students need new teachers"? Because clearly that isn't the case. While I'm at it, I would like to know how exactly your academy approach is supposed to work. Because again, either DD gets judged once a year by the academy coach, or academy coach sees his team a lot less. You didn't answer the question yesterday so might as well try to now. Not that it will change my decision, but I would like my question answered.

Here is the way I'm understanding from yesterday:
Red & White team train on same field each training day. All follow same lesson plan.
All coaches for the age group are there to work with the players.
Coaches will have exposure to all players during various times of training.
Players will be grouped by appropriate level, I think only way to keep pushing them all. Coaches will observe while they are on the field. Players dominating group may move up, those struggling drop a level. Doesn't mean permanent but movement.
There may be some coaching rotation for a specific drill. Red team will have their coach at all games and practices. A coach jumping off a drill to work with the other team for 15 minutes is not going to hinder the red team's development. I don't think that they mean the red team coach is going to work with the white team all day. I don't think anyone wants that.
Academy coach may come to 1 or more games who knows. I constantly saw the directors at both of my kids games multiple times. Actually saw this a lot more than ever before.

If that doesn't help, email them or your kid's current coach.

This tells me:
We’ll be using a system that was used somewhere else at a different time. Tell us how this benefits the players development? Because it was not, and still not, explained. DD stayed this past season out of “community” and “commitment”. But we’re not here just to pay salaries (and I won’t even bother on refunds to get that run around again). Will this help DD get to next level? I don’t think so. This is a player’s game but it’s be constrained to make it easier for coaching.

agree we did the same and never got the so called paying up opportunity. I am all for better kids making other kids better but ultimately some kids will take a hit if not constantly being challenged. So to close the gap you lower the bar for better players. They never address that fact however they reserve the right to move your kids from SQUAD to SQUAD based on what they think is best. Now sure how this builds confidence with players moving down and also for players moving up how they integrate with players they might have not played with before.

For all the “standardization”, there seems to be a problem of explaining what the standard is.

You can’t ask for the standardization to be defined on an unanimous board. Reach out to them and ask them to explain to you exactly how they plan to implement it. maybe another town hall so all can hear.

They couldn’t last night when we had no mics turned on. Are they going to explain it to a kid at practice or to me in parking lot? Okay.

Damn a bit aggressive. They said they will get back to those who have follow-up questions.

They didn’t last night. Not sitting around to “get the answer”.